In the example of http://www.amalbala.com, he used to have a blog-like site that was maintained through Dreamweaver (and static HTML). You can check out http://www.amalbala.com/blog/ to see what I am talking about. This page contains a dump of the previous version of the site, however, as one static, large dump of almost 70 posts or so. Here, he did not realize that he could take each “post” and publish it with its exact date (in the past) on WordPress. So the result is the dump that we see.

Now, if he had published the above 70 different (backdated) WP posts, the “weight” of his blog would have increased. The Blog Feed (RSS) will have ~75 items instead of the 3-4 items it has now. This has implications when it comes to mashups and aggregations. Tools or services that do this look at what the frequency of posting is for a particular blog and since when a blog has been active. Compare stats of 3-4 posts per month since Jun 2008 as opposed to 3 posts per month since Aug 2009. Obviously, the former puts u in a better position.

I believe factors such as the above do affect the worthiness of a blog as how search engines, blog registries (such as technorati) and aggregators (Feed Burner) see it. And, this will impact SEO.

Let me know if the above still does not answer your question.

in a future post I would like to know how to do the trackbacks

The vault section of our example site is presently (08/25/09) a monolithic blob — even though it actually contains more than 70 “posts”.

What does this mean: (a) it makes the site’s content look more lean than it actually is .. which for a blogging site is not that good (b) it prevents visitors from commenting or sharing specific posts.

My recommendation of breaking the vault section into individual back-dated posts is presently being worked upon. Since we are on WordPress, this should not take too long to address and would be time well spent!